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The first eCoty

THIS ISSUE SEES ECOTY REACH ITS 25TH occurrence, so at such a milestone it seemed appropriate to look back to issue 003 and the maiden Car of the Year. Except it wasn’t really the first CotY.

‘Here’s to another … sorry, Car of the Year,’ wrote Peter Tomalin at the end of his wonderful introduction (which also, surprisingly, included two magazine was, of course, an independent publishing phoenix rising from the ashes of , and Peter was keen that there should be some sense of the baton being passed on.

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